Entering the 2025-26 season, there are three Boston Bruins players that will be on the hot seat, and their future with the organization will rely on how they play.

Boston ended up finishing dead last in the Atlantic Division, posting a 33-39-10 record, making it their worst season in nearly a decade.

A big reason the 2024-25 season was horrendous was because multiple players did not perform how they should have, and the Bruins missed the playoffs for the first time since 2016 because of it.

Three Players On The Hot Seat

Jeremy Swayman

Swayman struggled big time for the Boston Bruins, and he is going to have to prove to the organization that it was just a fluke year. After securing the starting position, Swayman had a 22-29-7 record, with a 3.11 GAA, and a .892 SV%.

After signing his massive eight-year, $66 million contract, Swayman needs to prove that he can be the starting goaltender for the Boston Bruins.

Pavel Zacha

The former first-round pick did not live up to expectations during the 2024-25 season, and will need to have a bounce-back season next year if he wants to stick around with the Bruins. He only had 14 goals, and 47 points in 82 games with a minus-8 rating.

His numbers took a big dip from the previous two seasons with the Boston Bruins where he had 57 points in 2022-23, and than 59 points in 2023-24. Zacha can be effective for the Bruins but needs to bounce back.

Elias Lindholm

After being the Bruins big off-season signing, Lindholm's first year with Boston did not go how anyone intended. He signed a seven-year, $54.25 million contract during free agency, and was slated to take over the number one center position but found himself bouncing throughout the lineup. Lindholm scored 17 goals, and had 47 points in 82 games.

Lindholm did have a strong finish to the end of the year, and it was later revealed that he was dealing with back problems for the majority of the season, so there is a chance he has a good bounce back year. He also found some chemistry with Pastrnak, and Geekie towards the end of the year which is a really good sign.